Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

N/A

2005

DramaHistory

1 hour 38 minutes

Summary

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

~ 1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.
Jeff Pope

Screenplay

Bob Mills

Screenplay